MLB.com's Carrie Muskat has been covering Major League Baseball since 1981 and is the author of "Banks to Sandberg to Grace: Five Decades of Love and Frustration with the Cubs." You can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. Here, she blogs about the Cubs.

1/6 Zambrano says goodbye

Carlos Zambrano was always entertaining, and you never wanted to miss his starts with the Cubs. He had the potential to throw a no-hitter — which he did — or throw something else. Zambrano issued a statement through a friend on Thursday following his trade to the Marlins:

“I’d like to thank the Chicago media and reporters for more than 10 years covering me and supporting me in the good times and bad,” Zambrano said. “I tried my best to answer all your questions and I thank you for having patience with me and please forgive my poor behavior at times. Chicago will always be in my heart.”

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It’s too bad that Cubs fans can’t just move on and accept the fact that Zambrano did a lot of good things for this team. It got ugly at the end, and sometimes got ugly in the middle, but he always put his best effort out there which is a lot more than you can say for some guys.

This Cubs fan hopes for only good things for Zambrano. Maybe we’re better without him. I don’t know. But I’m hoping things go well for with the Marlins (except against the Cubs of course).

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